The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1887-08-20
TUTTTLE.
A Democratic Veteran Expresses
His Opinion of the Iowa
Blatherskite's Conduct.
A q. A. II. Man Comes to the Front-His-
tory and Common Sense Against Tuttle.
General J. NJ. Tuttle, Des Moines, Iowa.

| n u. N. X. Man Comes to the FrOnt-His-
| tory and Common Sense Against Tuttle.
| General J. NJ. Tuttle, Des Moincs, Iowa.
| Sr-As comrade in good standing
in the G.. A. r., desire to thus pub
licly dissent from and at the same time
condemn the course you have taken
with reference to the President of the
United States. AT the same time shall
review your conduct and in respect
full manner criticise its propriety.
In the first place l deny your right
or authority to speak for all the Demo.
cratic members of the e.. A. II. in Iowa.
| You speak not for me.
| shall not enter into the question oi
how the G.. A. II. has been repeatedly
used to "boom' aspiring Republican
politicians into Office; that is known
throughout the length and breadth ol
the land. We know how the "boom'
was applied last year in San Francisco
where all of our Democratic General:
were entirely ignored and uninvitcd.
But | desire to call your attention to
the Nervousness of your oflense in of
fcring, in your official capacity as Grand
Commander of Iowa, gross insults to
the Chief Magistrate of the United
States. The gravity of your crime
for crime it is to incite to disorder-is
in the threat uttered by you in your in
tcrview in last Sundays Register, and
re-echoed by eX-Grand Commander
Burdett at Washington, that the Presi-
dent would regret it if he should visit
st. Louis during the grand encamp-
ment of the G. A. r. What if the
Commandcr-in-C Chief of the army and
navy of the United States should visit
st. Louis in September? What if some
"crank of whom there are numbers
in Iowa-should, instigated by your
words, shoot the President as Guiteau
did the lamented President Garfield?
What then would be your fateP Would
not the Incorporate language used by
you and indorsed by the Republican
press of Iowa be quoted as damning
proof that you had publicly prophesied
this violcnce9 | regard your utter
ance in threatening insult and vio-
lence to the President of the United
States as disgraceful and unpatriotic.
Did Democratic Grand Army men
threaten or insult Republican Presi-
dent when he vetoed the equalization
of bounty bills?
Did Democratic Grand Army men
threaten or offer insults to another Re-
publican President and the Republican
Senators who opposed the arrearages
of pension act? No, sir, they were too
loyal to the Government to permit av-
arice and cupidity to lead them into
treason.
Let us review, Comrade Tuttle, the
grounds of your proposed demonstra-
ton against the commander of the ar
mics of these United States, while he is
the guest of q sister city, in sister
State. You say she vetoed the depend
ent pension bill.' True; and he We
toed several other bills, as it was his
right and duty rs chief executive to do.
Is Il President or Governor to be
mobbed, hooted and insulted every
time he offends any portion of the peo-
pie? What monstrous PROPOSE
ton. l, as veteran soldier.
favor a general pension law" as
well as a dependent pension bill, but 1
believe that the vetoed bill was proper
ly vetoed because it was imperfectly
constructed, as most of our pension
legislation has been and is to-day.
Even now n general pension law is be-
ing considered and canvassed by our
G. A. r. posts, and u substitute bill
will no doubt be evolved.
Now, Comrade Tuttle, ask you in
all candor what good your proposed
insult to the President will do the poor,
needy veterans and their widows and
orphans?
Will it assist the passage of the new
bill?
VIII it strengthen the hands and
ranks of the soldier friends in Con-
gress?
Will it change the political COM
pleNion of this or the new Congress-?
And above all, will it increase the in
tluence of the G. A. r. where it most
needs influencep
You have already done much to
weaken the cause of the men you pre-
tend to champion. We need friendship
and aid, not bitter hostility and the
condemnation of the conservative ele-
ment of our people. Iowa is not the
United States, nor has the soldier hob
by been ridden in every State as it is
being done in Iowa.
You insulted every Democratic sol
dier in Iowa when you said: "The
feeling against Cleveland is tremen-
dously strong throughout the State.
Democrats denounce him as strongly
rs Republicans This deny and chal-
lenge you to the proof. No decent,
intelligent Democrat in Iowa would
'denounce" the President rs you have
done. The Democrats in Iowa are too
loyal and patriotic to indorse senti-
ments that incite to riot and assassina-
ton. You will see, if you attend the
Grand Army cncampment in st. Louis,
that Democratic Grand Army men
from Iowa will be there in force, anu
will discountenance any action which
might tend to disgrace the State of
Iowa. In another place in your duly
authenticated interview in the Globe
Democrat and the Register you offer
this gratuitous insult to your Demo-